Skyline College student gets jail in gun case

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Police officers investigates the crime scene in parking lot 7 at Skyline College after a man was shot and injured on Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2009.

Police officers investigates the crime scene in parking lot 7 at Skyline College after a man was shot and injured on Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2009.

Photo: Stephen Lam, The Chronicle

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Police officers investigates the crime scene in parking lot 7 at Skyline College after a man was shot and injured on Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2009.

Police officers investigates the crime scene in parking lot 7 at Skyline College after a man was shot and injured on Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2009.

Photo: Stephen Lam, The Chronicle

Skyline College student gets jail in gun case

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A Skyline College student who was involved in a shooting at the San Bruno campus was sentenced Thursday to a year in county jail for a gun violation.

Germaine Benjamin, 19, pleaded no contest in May in San Mateo County Superior Court to a felony charge of possessing a loaded firearm and a gang enhancement.

At a hearing Thursday, Judge Susan Etezadi ordered Benjamin to spend a year in jail and placed him on three years' probation.

The Sept. 2 shooting in a parking lot at the community college was the climax of an argument between rival gang members, said Steve Wagstaffe, chief deputy district attorney.

Another student who was with Benjamin, Eric Brewer, 20, was shot in the buttocks. After being shot, Brewer gave a handgun to Benjamin, who threw it in a trash can, Wagstaffe said. That was the gun Benjamin was convicted of possessing.

Brewer pleaded no contest in January to a felony charge of carrying a loaded firearm in a public place. Etezadi placed him on three years' probation and gave him credit for time served in jail, about nine months.